9-letter words containing i, n, o, m
- prolamine — any of the class of simple proteins, as gliadin, hordein, or zein, found in grains, soluble in dilute acids, alkalis, and alcohols, and insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, and absolute alcohol.
- promazine — a compound, C 17 H 20 N 2 S, used as a tranquilizer.
- prominent — standing out so as to be seen easily; conspicuous; particularly noticeable: Her eyes are her most prominent feature.
- promising — giving favorable promise; likely to turn out well: a promising young man; a promising situation.
- promoting — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- promotion — advancement in rank or position.
- prompting — encouragement to act
- prooemion — a preface
- prosimian — belonging or pertaining to the primate suborder Prosimii, characterized by nocturnal habits, a long face with a moist snout, prominent whiskers, large mobile ears, and large, slightly sideways-facing eyes, comprising the lemur, loris, potto, bush baby, and aye-aye. Compare anthropoid.
- protamine — any of a group of arginine-rich, strongly basic proteins that are not coagulated by heat, occurring primarily in the sperm of fish.
- ptomainic — causing or resulting from ptomaines
- pump iron — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- purdonium — a type of coal scuttle having a slanted cover that is raised to open it, and an inner removable metal container for the coal
- puromycin — a substance with antibiotic properties, obtained from certain species of Streptomyces
- pygmalion — Classical Mythology. a sculptor and king of Cyprus who carved an ivory statue of a maiden and fell in love with it. It was brought to life, in response to his prayer, by Aphrodite.
- pyramidon — a pedal organ stop made of wooden pipes in the shape of an inverted pyramid
- pyromania — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- querimony — a complaint
- railwoman — a female worker on a railway
- rainstorm — a storm with heavy rain.
- randomize — to order or select in a random manner, as in a sample or experiment, especially in order to reduce bias and interference caused by irrelevant variables; make random.
- re-homing — the act of re-homing an animal
- recombine — to bring into or join in a close union or whole; unite: She combined the ingredients to make the cake. They combined the two companies.
- reconfirm — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
- reforming — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- remention — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
- remington — Eliphalet [ih-lif-uh-lit] /ɪˈlɪf ə lɪt/ (Show IPA), 1793–1861, U.S. arms manufacturer.
- remission — the act of remitting.
- remoisten — to moisten again, to add new moisture to
- remontoir — any of various devices used in watches, clocks, etc, to compensate for errors arising from the changes in the force driving the escapement
- rhodamine — a red dye obtained by heating an alkyl aminophenol with phthalic anhydride.
- romanised — to make Roman Catholic.
- rompingly — in a romping manner
- roominess — affording ample room; spacious; large.
- roumanian — Romania.
- routinism — adherence to routine.
- rovaniemi — a city in N Finland, near the Arctic Circle.
- ruminator — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- salmonoid — resembling a salmon.
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- sciomancy — divination with the help of ghosts
- semicolon — the punctuation mark (;) used to indicate a major division in a sentence where a more distinct separation is felt between clauses or items on a list than is indicated by a comma, as between the two clauses of a compound sentence.
- seminoles — a member of any of several groupings of North American Indians comprising emigrants from the Creek Confederacy territories to Florida or their descendants in Florida and Oklahoma, especially the culturally conservative present-day Florida Indians.
- seminomad — a person living a partly nomadic life; a semi-nomadic person
- semiround — having one surface that is round and another that is flat.
- sensorium — a part of the brain or the brain itself regarded as the seat of sensation.
- sermoning — the preaching of sermons
- sermonise — to deliver or compose a sermon; preach.
- sermonize — to deliver or compose a sermon; preach.
- sigmatron — a machine for generating X-rays